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DOCUMENT | 16 Jan 2022

Assessment of the design and implementation challenges of the national health insurance scheme (NHIS) in Nigeria: a qualitative study among sub-national level actors, healthcare and insurance providers

Nigeria

Health insurance is an important mechanism to improve access to healthcare and prevent financial hardship and attain universal health coverage. Although it has been over almost two decades since the launch of the NHIS, only 5% of Nigerians have health insurance and...

DOCUMENT | 26 Dec 2021

Republic of the Gambia 2012-2020 national health policy-Health is wealth

Gambia

The government of Gambia envisioned providing quality and affordable health services for all by 2020. This national health policy provided a clear direction to all relevant stakeholders in the health sector for implementation of interventions in the sector to improve...

DOCUMENT | 15 Dec 2021

Healthcare Finance in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Qualitative Study of Householders’ Attitudes

Saudi Arabia

This study examines how satisfied the Saudi people are with their public sector healthcare services and assesses their willingness to contribute to financing the system through a national health insurance scheme. The sustainability of the public sector healthcare...

DOCUMENT | 14 Dec 2021

Reforming the public service medical aid scheme (PSEMAS) in Namibia

Namibia

The Government of Namibia provides a significant proportion of funding to subsidize the PSEMAS for public servants. As part of efforts to ensure value for money, the Government is pursuing reforms to the scheme. A technical committee was set up early in 2021 to...

NEWS | 14 Dec 2021

A new document summarising the reforms in the public service medical aid scheme (PSEMAS) in Namibia has been posted in the document section

Namibia

An article providing a summary on reforming the public service medical aid scheme (PSEMAS) in Namibia has been posted in the document section. The link can be found below.

DOCUMENT | 08 Dec 2021

Pricing the national health insurance scheme in Qatar – opportunities and challenges

Qatar

In 2013, the Kingdom of Qatar introduced a national health insurance scheme called ‘Seha’. It is regulated by the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) through the country’s National Health Insurance Company. This paper outlines the SHC’s health insurance pricing approach...

NEWS | 02 Dec 2021

CSU au TCHAD: Promulgation of law n°026 creating the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAS)

Chad

On 31/12/2020, the Chadian National Assembly unanimously adopted the law creating the National Health Insurance Fund. This law was promulgated on the same day by the Head of State, the Marshal of Chad, Idriss Déby ITNO. Passage and promulgation of the...

DOCUMENT | 30 Nov 2021

COVID-19 response in Lebanon: current experience and challenges in a low-resource setting

Lebanon

This journal article gives insight into Lebanon’s healthcare response to the COVID 19 pandemic with limited financial resources and an increasingly private and urban health sector. It suggests that 80% of the health care budget in Lebanon is spent on acute care in...

DOCUMENT | 25 Nov 2021

Positioning the national health insurance scheme (NHIS) for financial sustainability and universal health coverage (UHC) in Ghana: A qualitative study among key stakeholders

Ghana

Ghana introduced the NHIS in 2003 to reduce out-of-pocket payments for health care. Over a decade of its implementation, challenges about the financial sustainability of this pro-poor policy remain despite its critical role in attaining UHC. The authors conducted this...

NEWS | 25 Nov 2021

New documents on national health insurance scheme (NHIS) in Ghana have been added to the document section

Ghana

Four documents on Ghana's NHIS have been recently uploaded to the documents section of the Ghana country page. The documents can be downloaded from the related documents below.

NEWS | 24 Oct 2021

Gambia: “The 2020 national health insurance bill (NHIB) seeks to fulfil right to health care services” says Minister Samateh

Gambia

In the quest to ensure financial risk protection and equal access to health services and hence achieve universal health coverage, the Gambia government initiated the introduction of the national health insurance scheme (NHIS) in 2020. The minister of health Dr. Ahmad...

POST | 15 Oct 2021

Progressing towards CSU in the era of COVID-19 in French-speaking Africa: what are the major challenges?

Kéfilath Bello, Fadhi Dkhimi, Y-LingChi, Jean-Paul Dossou, HélèneBarroy On May 20, 2021, WHO, P4H, the Center for Global Development, the Global Financing Facility (GFF) and Collectivity have organized a webinar entitled...

NEWS | 12 Oct 2021

Government of Tanzania invests in universal health coverage (UHC)

Tanzania, United Republic of

The government of Tanzania is committed to attaining UHC by 2030. In this vein, the government has set aside Sh149 billion (about 65 million USD) to implement UHC. The government spokesperson, Mr Gerson Msigwa, said the money would be used to start providing...

NEWS | 10 Oct 2021

Kenya: New documents on national hospital insurance fund (NHIF) available in the documents section

Kenya

Two documents have been recently uploaded to the documents section of the Kenya country page. An assessing the feasibility of the amendment of the NHIF stipulating that all Kenyans must be registered under in the new universal health...

DOCUMENT | 09 Oct 2021

Is Kenya’s national hospital insurance fund (NHIF) amendment bill a silver bullet for universal health coverage (UHC)?

Kenya

The NHIF amendment bill is part of Government of Kenya plan for achieving UHC. The goal of the UHC program is to provide health care for all based on need-not on ability to pay. One of the proposals in the 2021 NHIF amendment bill stipulates that all Kenyans must be...

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